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Ekuwah Mends Moses 🇬🇭 🇺🇸
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🏆Award-Winning K-5 Engineering & Design Teacher | STEM | Family Engagement | 📚 Author-Illustrator of nonfiction picture books: #MyNameIsAnAddress & #MamasPortraits 👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/Ekuwah
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Hello!👋🏾 This is my 24th year of teaching! I’m a former Literacy Specialist & instructional coach who is now an award-winning K-5 engineering specialist teacher & author. I was selected as the 23-24 National Life Group LifeChanger of the Year #LCOY grand prize winner!
#STEM #STEAM #EduSky
Meet Our 2023-24 Grand Prize Winner: Ekuwah Moses
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After a demo with a newsprint rocket, my 2nd–5th grade students designed and built two straw rockets each. They measured flight distance in square feet and compared their fin designs. A high-flying experience in data, design, and engineering. ♻️ 🚀

#STEM #STEAM #EduSky
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After making a solar system-themed marble drop game with my students (using bottle caps, cardboard & pre-glued skewers), we reused the leftover skewers (cut to 3”) to build a solar system model showing planetary orbits & distances! 🌞🪐 #STEM #STEAM #EduSky
Absolutely—feel free to use the design challenge! That’s exactly why I share. My students created these using Makedo tools. Congrats on your purchase—you’re going to love using them!
How it started:
📝 “Next year I want to work on some space stuff.” – 2nd grader
🪐 “I want to build a solar system… it feels hard and fun!” – 3rd grader
(EOY Reflections)

How it went:
👇 Solar System Marble Drop Game
#STEM #StudentVoice #EduSky
600 students, 1200 skewers, and one mission: safety first! ⚠️ 🔥✂️🖐🏾

This weekend, I’m trimming sharp tips and pre-gluing beads to protect curious hands from pokes and hot glue burns. Let the next engineering challenge begin—safely! #STEM #EduSky
Build Your Own Bean Grab Game!

Our 2nd–5th grade engineers created their own version of Hungry Hungry Hippos—with perimeter walls, a soccer field layout, 20 beans, and one instant-win pom-pom!

Now they’re equipped to challenge their families to build, play, and talk!
#STEM #EduSky
I’m incredibly humbled and grateful @jaciemaslyk.bsky.social chose to include me as one of the featured educators in the 2nd edition of #STEAMMakers!

✅Pre-order it today!

#ThankfulThursday #STEM #EduSky
I’m excited to share that the 2nd edition of #STEAMMakers is being released next month! 🎉🎉🎉

It highlights the work of some amazing #STEM educators, leaders, librarians, and organizations.

#STEMeducation #STEAMeducation #MakerEd #makerspaces #creativity #innovation #eSports #robotics
🛹 The Feel Good Skatepark and beyond!

Check out these epic fingerboard parks built by our 2nd–5th grade engineering pros! From kicker ramps to mini bowls, flat bars, spine ramps, and more — creativity and design skills are rolling full speed ahead!
#STEM #EduSky
From a kind colleague assisting with the book fair:

“Some kids were checking out this skateboarding book all because of your lesson.”

This was a meaningful reminder that when #STEM education is made accessible and engaging, it can ignite curiosity far beyond the lesson itself!

#EduSky
⬇️ Pass the Pom Pom! ➡️ ♻️

My students got creative with cardstock, bottle caps, and straws to engineer a super fun and challenging passing game! They overlapped two cardstock boxes where rotating straws (with bottle caps attached) guide a Pom Pom across or down the path.
#STEM #EduSky
“I created a skatepark today. It was hard to build the ramp because you had to tape it down & it took a while. Next time I would use more hot glue to make it more sturdy. Engineering is fun because I like building stuff.” - 4th grader (✏️written reflection & design plan) #STEM #EduSky
“I created a mini skate park. It was fun! It was challenging to do, but I did it in 25 minutes. I am proud of my work. Skate parks are fun to make and to play on. It helps me build my creativity up! I love this class!” - 5th grader (✏️ written reflection) #STEM #EduSky
In our elementary engineering class, K–2 students used bottle caps to build numbers, traced them into circles, and created their own coloring pages. A fun blend of STEM, design thinking, and creativity—all from a simple recycled material! ♻️ 🖍️ ⭕️ #STEM
A colleague asked for some bottle caps a few days ago. Today, she surprised me with a LEGO flower bouquet in a vase made from those caps. Such a thoughtful gift—and a great conversation starter about ♻️ upcycling in my engineering classroom! 🌻 #STEM #EduSky
What would you build with bottle caps and jumbo craft sticks?

Here are just three creative takes: a cat, an apartment complex, and a school.
Now imagine the rest!

Simple materials. Endless possibilities. 💡 #STEM #EduSky
How it started: a chaotic pile of 6,000 straws

How it went: neatly color-sorted boxes 🎨

A “small” #STEM classroom management win—less time rummaging, more time creating, testing, improving, and sharing!

In a 50-min class, every minute counts!
#EduSky
Math in a Stack: Counting with Bottle Caps! 🔢🟣

K–2 students started by stacking caps to represent numbers—then turned it into a self-selected exploration of balance and design! ⚖️💡

Early numeracy, engineering, fine motor skills, and creativity with bottle caps! ♻️ #STEM #EduSky
You’re welcome! I get it! Putting these highlight video together renew my zest for teaching.
What an a-MAZ-ing start to the school year! ♻️🎉

Grades 3–5 designed and built their own maze or marble run using cardboard, bottle caps—and just 30 minutes on the clock! ⏱

Best part? Each student will take their work home to share with friends and family! #STEM #EduSky
Early Literacy + #STEM = 💡♻️

📕 To kick off the year, I introduced myself as the author & illustrator of a nonfiction book about my name: #MyNameIsAnAddress.

🔵 Then K–2 students took on a creative design challenge—building letters & their names with bottle caps!

#EduSky